I love my job:)

[JPT]

seriously, if I had to go up inside one of those, I would crap my pants. Seriously.

Seriously, me too.

[FestYboy]

seriously?

[Festiva_tunner]

That is crazy... The picture of the windmill that has a picture of the car driving past it shows just how big these things are.

I'd like to see pics of the foundation building phases too. Sounds interesting! (I took 4 years of drafting in HS - I miss those days)

the ladder in ours is 265 feet lond - the blades are 131 feet the tower comes in four sections ranging from 25 to 150 feet long, the Nacelle is as big as a 40 foot RV and weiths 51 metric tons the blades and hub combined weigh 32 metric tons

[MeeMo]

That is so totally cool. Man, how huge! How much power does one of those things put out, and do they make huge 'whooshing' sounds when they're cruising?

[festivaWES]

Pretty cool stuff. North Palm Springs has 3,100 of them that powers the city. Produce 600-900 megawatts.

[Festiva_tunner]

That is so totally cool. Man, how huge! How much power does one of those things put out, and do they make huge 'whooshing' sounds when they're cruising?

Not sure on the machines pictured but ours (Vestas V82's) produce 1.65 Megawatts

[niklid05]

the ladder in ours is 265 feet lond - the blades are 131 feet the tower comes in four sections ranging from 25 to 150 feet long, the Nacelle is as big as a 40 foot RV and weiths 51 metric tons the blades and hub combined weigh 32 metric tons

Whats your part in erecting wind mills? For the most part all of the numbers youre saying are witihin 2 feet/ton of what were dealing with. They are Gamesa windmills.

I had a chance to climb up the tower yesterday but we finally got our crane to a open spot after we were done with our part and I was able to play around with it for a couple hours. Im really liking this windmill stuff now. Were getting 75-80 hours a week, everything is slowpaced per the general contractors procedures. I just have a feeling once I get a good grasp on this wind mill thing, my company is gonna pull me off this job to send me on another:/

I also popped my windmill cherry today by tailling the spike(the last piece of the tower section.) Everyone was pleased with my performance. My operator told me he plans on having me running the crane so well by the end of september that all he'll have to do is call me from his house to find out what to put on his time sheet

[Safety Guy]

Great pics, Niklid!

These things are part of the future.

I hope to one day move into the boonies and build my own. Ahem, slightly smaller though!

Here's a link to a cool "DIY" site:

http://www.otherpower.com/

Everything from old "boys book of electrical stuff" to diesel generators--all to get you off the grid and as self-sufficient as possible.

Remember the great power outage from a few years back? Don't think it can't happen again!

Karl

[JPT]

Seriously, me too.

seriously?

Seriously!

[benms79]

thats pretty awsome! looks fun!! i install turbos all day! lol mount them and run all the lines for them. i install around 300 turbos a day! pretty cool job.

[ejp2fast]

thats pretty awsome! looks fun!! i install turbos all day! lol mount them and run all the lines for them. i install around 300 turbos a day! pretty cool job.

so elaborate what you do... installing 300 turbo chargers per day sounds interesting!

[benms79]

so elaborate what you do... installing 300 turbo chargers per day sounds interesting!

lol, yea, well the engines roll down a line on a steel pallet, as each engine come to my dept, we have to install the manifold and turbo on it, pretty fast,have to do each engine in 75 seconds.we avg around 280-320 engines each shift.here are a few pics of the turbos and the engines we build...

turbos we use are holset these are some of the smaller ones!




completed engines





one being tested

[Damkid]

^^And where is your job located :lol:

[festymick]

Now that is definitely my cup of tea right there....

[Festiva_tunner]

Whats your part in erecting wind mills? For the most part all of the numbers youre saying are witihin 2 feet/ton of what were dealing with. They are Gamesa windmills.
I also popped my windmill cherry today by tailling the spike(the last piece of the tower section.) Everyone was pleased with my performance. My operator told me he plans on having me running the crane so well by the end of september that all he'll have to do is call me from his house to find out what to put on his time sheet

I work for Vestas we suppervised the erection of both Phases here at Twin Groves (240 turbines) I stayed on after construction to keep the towers running.
The Gemesa towers are essentially a V80 - ours at the site are a medium to low wind tower - V82's
You'll go a long way being an opperator in the wind industry.